News tagged with weight loss surgery

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Hot sauce ingredient reduces 'beer belly' fat as a weight-loss surgery alternative

According to research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), the ingredient that gives hot sauce its heat could play a role in the future of weight loss.

Medical research created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weight-loss surgery provides benefit to high-risk, severely obese patients

Among surgeries for obesity, a newer, increasingly popular procedure called sleeve gastrectomy provides more weight loss to high-risk, severely obese patients than adjustable gastric banding, a new study suggests.

Surgery created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High BMI tied to non-specific foot pain, plantar heel pain

(HealthDay) -- Increased body mass index (BMI) correlates with non-specific foot pain in the general population, and with chronic plantar heel pain in a non-athletic population, according to a meta-analysis ...

Health created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Serious complications after oesophageal surgery cause lasting health problems in long-term survivors

(Medical Xpress) -- Oesophageal cancer is a very serious form of cancer that, if not fatal, requires extensive surgery. A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that when serious complications arise after surgery for ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New weight loss surgery folds stomach into smaller size

(Medical Xpress) -- Patients seeking a weight-loss surgery that does not require an implanted device or permanent change to their anatomy, have a new clinical trial option at UC San Diego Health System. Santiago ...

Surgery created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Losing the weight but not the stigma

(Medical Xpress) -- Obese people who lose weight will encounter far less social stigma and may even be seen as fitter than if they had been lean all along, but they may still face prejudice relating to how ...

Health created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Weight-loss surgery seems safe for kidney disease patients

(HealthDay) -- Obese chronic kidney disease patients who undergo surgery to achieve weight loss do not face a particularly dangerous rate of complications as a result, a new study suggests.

Surgery created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bariatric surgery in adolescents improves obesity-related diseases within first 2 years

Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Impaired quality of life: A warning signal after oesophageal cancer surgery

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that most patients who survive for at least five years after oesophageal cancer surgery recover an average quality of life. However, quality of life deteriorates signif ...

Cancer created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists reassess weight loss surgery for type 2 diabetes

Weight loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood sugar control, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Surgery. Whereas some previous studies have claimed that up to 80 ...

Surgery created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bariatric surgery associated with reduction in cardiovascular events and death

Among obese individuals, having bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced long-term incidence of cardiovascular deaths and events such as heart attack and stroke, according to a study in the January 4 issue of JAMA.

Cardiology created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ASMBS and ASGE issue white paper on endoscopic bariatric therapies (EBTs)

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) have issued a new white paper on the potential role of endoscopic bariatric therapies (EBTs) in ...

Sleep apnea created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Halo effect: Family members of gastric-bypass patients also lose weight

Family members of patients who have undergone surgery for weight loss may also shed several pounds themselves, as well as eat healthier and exercise more, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University School ...

Other created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research reveals hormone action that could lead to treatments for type 2 diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered that the immediate improvement in blood sugar (blood glucose) for those with type 2 diabetes who undergo gastric bypass surgery is related to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For some surgeries, more is better when choosing hospitals

Are you scheduled for heart bypass surgery or weight loss surgery? You might want to find out just how frequently different hospitals in your area are performing those procedures before deciding where to go. ...

Other created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0